BAAL SHEM TOV STORY! How Much Effort Does God Expect From You?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

All right, you want to hear a story? Story's like this. Once upon a time, the Bal Shem Tov was collecting money and he went to a house, I guess where people had a lot of money, and he knocked on the window and then he turned around and he left. And the tell me them his students were with him. They were observing him. They thought that was very strange. He went over to this house, knocks on the window, and then before anyone has a chance to answer, he walks away. And they're just observing. And a minute later, somebody comes out of the house and looking around, what's going ding and looking around, what's going ding dong ditch? What's going on? Neighborhood kids, let's go. Oh, Bal Shem Tov, the tzaddik was here. Oh, but he's walking away. He must have been a So, the the balabos, the homeowner, goes running after the Bal Shem Tov and says, uh, you know, basically asks him why he knocked on the on the house. Bal Shem Tov says, "Oh, yeah, I'm collecting money." Well, how much? Told him the amount. Okay, let me go get it. Ran to the house, got the money, gave the Bal Shem Tov the money. So, the the tell me them were very puzzled. What's going on here? Why did the Bal Shem Tov behave this way? If it was necessary to go

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1. 0:00All right, you want to hear a story? Story's like this. Once upon a time, the…
2. 0:30and looking around, what's going ding dong ditch? What's going on? Neighborhood kids, let's go. Oh,…
3. 1:01this way? If it was necessary to go actually collect the money, then the Bal Shem…
4. 1:31he explained like this. The Torah says, "And the Lord your God will bless you in…
5. 2:02said, "I had to do something, but how much do I have to do? Something." So,…
6. 3:04one. That's not how it works. It's a relationship like a vessel and its contents. There…
7. 3:35"The reality is that it's 5% seichel and 95% mazel. That's the reality." And they said,…
8. 4:05Meaning to say, even the little bit of seichel, meaning the the acumen, the the business…
9. 4:35it. It's Hashem does all of it, but I have to create some physical vessel for…
10. 5:07name, millions of dollars sitting there, and you're coming to the teller and like, "Do you…

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